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R7Wlj TIL the last US President to fluently speak a foreign language was FDR (French and German).
8aEM4 TIL that in 2010, a group of Weight Watchers members gathered to see how much weight they had lost, only for the floor to collapse under their combined weight.
xVwwo TIL Ned McIlhenny, son of the Tabasco inventor, was a prominent conservationist and is credited with saving Snowy Egrets from extinction. Tabasco never tasted so good.
b9rd4 TIL that the term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan. It was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.
6ZdQ TIL that in 1998, Nestle trademarked the tubular packaging of Smarties. It later sued Masterfoods Denmark which marketed M&Ms in a similar package. The Supreme Court of Denmark later ruled that a basic geometrical shape couldn’t be trademarked, and ordered the trademark to be removed.